Rock Hudson and Raoul Walsh – A Double Bill: Sea Devils (1953)/The Lawless Breed (1953)
Hudson was a "meat and potatoes" sort of movie star, an average actor breezing through a lot of average Hollywood movies. more…
Oppenheimer
Is a film covering an important subject important by default? more…
That Evening Sun
A uniquely gothic, uniquely Southern tale, at turns funny, wry, smart and dramatic, but rarely if ever melodramatic more…
The Columbus Moving Picture Show 2024
An annual, four-day, 16mm film convention has been an event for film lovers in Columbus, Ohio, since 1969. more…
BlackBerry
The rise and fall of the first addictively popular smartphone is also an absorbing tale of conflicting personalities. more…
Barbie
A cultural phenomenon. more…
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Hartley keeps this nearly hard-to-believe story racing forward, almost as if he's trying to keep up with Cannon's crazy schemes, bold gestures and far-out methods of getting product to movie screens. more…
I Dream of Wires
This addictive documentary on the rise, fall and resurgence of the synthesizer is not just for music lovers or musicians. It's an inspiring tale of stubborn ingenuity. more…
Enemy
… may make you feel nauseous. It's filmed in a sickly yellowish beige that renders everything that is potentially joyful in life in soul-deadening hues. more…
The Naked Truth
While consistently amusing, this wickedly morbid comedy rarely, if ever, becomes laugh-out-loud funny. more…
Broken Embraces
The luxurious style with which Almodóvar tells his story is cinema carefully composed as a love letter to past cinema. more…
Colour Me Kubrick
A fictionalized account of a fascinating tale, and owned by lead actor John Malkovich. more…
Louis Feuillade’s Fantômas
Feuillade wrote and directed so many films the exact number seems to be unknown (between 600 and 800), excelling in widely diverse genres and film movements. more…
Twilight
As a 21st Century cultural phenomenon — a vampire love story for modern times — is difficult to criticize. more…
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
… is not an easy film to love — or dislike. more…
Lynch/Oz
Six audio-visual essays making connections that go to the heart and origins of Lynch's art and philosophy. more…
Mr. Jones
A look back at reporter Gareth Jones’ 1930s exposé of Stalin’s man-made famine in Ukraine, a genocidal nightmare which killed millions of people. more…
Wonka
Though not based on Dahl-written source material, it captures the essence of his work, which could be hard-edged, even mean-spirited in caricatures of vice and hedonism. more…
The Lighthouse
A warm, cleansing shower might be what you most desire after seeing this film. more…
The Limey
… includes a sequence so perfect it could be taught in film schools, wherein Wilson and Eduardo discreetly crash a party given for Hollywood insiders. more…
The Last Duel
A bone-crushing display of savagery, singularly unlike the chivalrous duels portrayed in classic Hollywood films. more…
Daisy Kenyon
A post-WWII love triangle that features complex, nuanced, morally (and sexually) ambiguous characters. more…
Baahubali: The Beginning
At once a musical, an action film, a superhero film, a war film, a romance and a political drama, mixing and mashing tropes and styles from a hundred and thirty years of cinema. more…
Destination Moon
It's amazing how much influence this film had on later popular culture —and the public's understanding, acceptance and enthusiasm for U.S. space travel. more…
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
A modern western that could have taken place any time in the last two hundred years. more…
Billy Wilder Speaks
Any Billy Wilder film can be studied to learn satisfying storytelling, but here Wilder pulls back the curtain and reveals his techniques and methodology. Storytellers of all kinds can learn from this film. more…
A Complete Unknown
The writers know that trying to explain or psychologically penetrate an artist who made sure to be an enigma would be an impossible task, so they smartly don't try. more…
The Thing
It's apparent that what was important to Carpenter was not characterization or theme but gore. Put succinctly, The Thing tries to out-Alien Alien. more…
Longlegs
Enjoy it or hate it, you'll never forget Cage in this role, one of many great ones he's given in recent years. more…
Renfield
Exceedingly violent in a crazy, cartoonish way, with spurting blood, severed limbs and decapitated heads, all in a day’s work. more…
American Fiction
Genuine satire is getting to be a rarity in today's cinema, which tends to bank on either grim and gritty or light and frivolous. This is none of those things. more…
Three Men to Kill
Manchette later turned to writing crime thriller screenplays for films we're now eager to hunt down. more…
The White Ribbon
A stern, joyless taskmaster, Haneke seems driven to impart lessons about man's inhumanity to man. more…
The Announcement (Anons)
As comedies go, this film is exceedingly dry and emotionally cold, appropriate for a story in which martinis and refrigerators are a part of the dialogue. more…
My Wonderful Wanda
Consummately professional, and always engaging, but the impression left after the film ends is that something is missing. more…
Mr. Wong, Detective
As B movies go, The Wong films aren't bottom of the barrel … but close. more…
Yakuza Apocalypse
A crazy, violent, nonsensical romp, practically designed to annoy those not open to its anarchic spirit. more…
Stage Fright
A good reminder that even minor Hitchcock is worth watching. more…
Nosferatu
The story is familiar, but the ways Eggers brings it to life are extraordinary. This isn't a Dracula you've seen before. more…
Is Hollywood Sick? (or, A Night on the Town)
What's interesting is the kinds of American movies not being shown: non-franchise comedies, musicals, and adult dramas. We're in a drought. more…
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Civilization descending back into barbarism doesn't sound any more far-fetched now than it did in '77. more…
The Boy and the Heron
So rich in color and visual inventiveness it would be folly to attempt to describe. There are scenes so original and eye-popping, you'll never forget them. more…
Poor Things
In seeing a Lanthimos film, you know he's going to bring the weirdness. Poor Things is a hotbed freak show. more…
The Northman
He made it, he presented it, do with it what you will. more…
The Outfit
A concise and efficient thriller, nearly as elegant as the clothing fashioned by its protagonist. more…
Angel Face
Directed in an amazing 18 days. You wouldn't have guessed the short shooting schedule by looking at the film. more…
The Sparks Brothers
A joy to watch, whether you're a longtime fan of Sparks or a complete novice. more…
The Irishman
… doesn’t rely on bravura set-pieces as in earlier Scorsese gangster films. The killings portrayed here are often quick, casual, over practically before you realize it; just another assignment in a day’s work. more…
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis
A genial bit of fluff. more…
The Great Buster: A Celebration
Those who haven't seen Keaton's films do themselves a disservice if they don't watch the films themselves. more…
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